I just received an email from the the Site Recovery Manager Product Management team. They created a new survey, and I was hoping each of you who is using, or will be purchasing SRM soon, could take the time to complete it. These types of surveys are very useful for Product Management when it comes to setting priorities for new features and identify gaps etc. Thanks!
We are conducting a survey about VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) to learn more about how people use our products. The survey will help us identify where we can improve the product to meet your needs and we would really appreciate getting your feedback.
The link to the survey is below, it typically takes less than 10 minutes to complete. http://www.surveymethods.com/EndUser.aspx?ECC8A4BDEDA6B9BAE7
Thanks!
SRM 4.1.2 does not appear on the version list.
The survey is nice but long.
Hi – the biggest issue I have with SRM is the use of placeholders. It causes issues with inventory, reporting and integration with 3rd party backup, monitoring and other products. I didn’t see any opportunity to add custom comments at the end of the survey but this alone should be rectified. There should be some way to hide them or remove them in the next version.
Mike
We use SRM 5 and NetApp 3270s on both sides of the environment. Really simple setup I think. We don’t re-IP or anything fancy just a streched layer 2. Can you point to more in depth info on the SRA Pearl scripts or more of the guts of SRM…for instance I’m trying to find out exactly what happens when you use “Force Cleanup” but can’t seem to find anything.
Our problem is it seems after a failover some of the igroups are still attached to LUNS and checked as if they were to be used on the original primary site….also we see some weirdness with LUNs still kindof being there and showing as disconnected or just greyed out when they should not be being seen. We updated to 5.01 thinking the 2nd rescan might help but the problems continue….when we failback we have failures if we don’t manually cleanup igroups and insure no APD or similar situations on the storage side…I was hoping after identifying the SIOC and writing a script to turn it off before failover we would be solid but I’m still seeing issues here in lovely Afghanistan.
The SRM team needs to leverage Avamar/Data Domain to run test recovery. Many of my clients don’t need immediate RTO/RPO, but need a way to leverage systems that are not being array synched but are being synched as a remote backup. If there was an SRA that could automatically inflate the VMs on the recovery site, this would be ideal for a tier 2 solution.
Does anyone know if VMware is working on something like this?
Taking the survey now!